Java Job Trends in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon citing Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 9 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	19	3	9
Rank change year-on-year	-16	+6	+1
Permanent jobs citing Java	6	29	29
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon	2.69%	34.12%	26.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category	40.00%	82.86%	52.73%
Number of salaries quoted	3	1	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	£52,400	£66,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£24,000	£55,200	£67,500
Median % change year-on-year	-56.52%	-18.22%	-12.90%
75^th Percentile	-	£58,000	£68,750
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South London median annual salary	£92,500	£82,500	£67,500
% change year-on-year	+12.12%	+22.22%	-18.18%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing coding skills in Croydon.

	6 months to 9 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	15	35	55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon	6.73%	41.18%	49.55%
Number of salaries quoted	8	5	6
10^th Percentile	-	£38,960	£31,625
25^th Percentile	£24,000	£52,400	£32,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£57,500	£44,500
Median % change year-on-year	+8.70%	+29.21%	-32.83%
75^th Percentile	£67,500	£70,000	£65,938
90^th Percentile	-	-	£76,250
South London median annual salary	£65,000	£46,000	£52,750
% change year-on-year	+41.30%	-12.80%	-18.85%

Java Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Java Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java.

Java Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 9 November 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
South Croydon	-	3	£24,000	-	2
Java South London

Java Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 9 November 2026, job vacancies citing Java also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Croydon region citing Java.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Full-Stack Development	50.0%	3
1	Test Automation	50.0%	3
3	ActiveMQ	33.3%	2
3	Agile	33.3%	2
3	Amazon EC2	33.3%	2
3	Amazon ECS	33.3%	2
3	Amazon EKS	33.3%	2
3	Apache Camel	33.3%	2
3	API Design	33.3%	2
3	API Development	33.3%	2
3	AWS	33.3%	2
3	BDD	33.3%	2
3	CI/CD	33.3%	2
3	Containerisation	33.3%	2
3	DevOps	33.3%	2
3	Digital Transformation Programme	33.3%	2
3	Docker	33.3%	2
3	Dynatrace	33.3%	2
3	Hibernate	33.3%	2
3	HTML	33.3%	2
3	Integration Testing	33.3%	2
3	JavaScript	33.3%	2
3	Jenkins	33.3%	2
3	JMeter	33.3%	2
3	JPA	33.3%	2
3	jQuery	33.3%	2
3	JUnit	33.3%	2
3	Kanban	33.3%	2
3	Kibana	33.3%	2
3	Kubernetes	33.3%	2

Java Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	JavaScript	33.3%	2
1	Python	33.3%	2
1	Shell Script	33.3%	2